Group of migrants waiting at US-Mexico border
Migrants from different parts of Central America are waiting in line at the Paso Del Norte bridge to seek asylum.
ABC-7 spoke with one man who left Honduras with his girlfriend Dec. 20, 2017. He said he got to the port of entry on Sunday and has been waiting to claim asylum.
Herson Valeriano Soto said, “It was very difficult to leave my family in Honduras and to leave without knowing what was going to happen, because I’ve been gone since last year.”
Soto said he left Honduras for a better life.
“We’re living in a complicated situation in the sense that there is economic violence,” he said. “We don’t have a good economy, there is no money, no work. We have a government that is marginalizing us, they’re quieting us. They don’t want the youth to speak, to protest. If you go out to protest, they could kill you because the government doesn’t want you to speak out.”
Soto said he is trying to reach Charlotte, North Carolina where his two children, who are U.S citizens, live.
“I don’t want to harm the United States at any moment because I care a lot about the United States because my children live there, my family lives there. I don’t want to terrorize the Unites States at any point, I don’t want to harm the United States at any point, it’s the opposite, I want to make it more beautiful,” Soto said.
ABC-7 spotted the Cruz Roja (Mexico Red Cross) handing out jackets and making sure the migrants have water.
